North America Distribution

Facts About

Coriander (also called cilantro) is native to the Mediterranean but cultivated worldwide as a culinary herb. The stems, leaves, roots and seeds are all used in cooking. The seeds have been found in Neolithic excavations. It occasionally escapes cultivation in New England.

Habitat

Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), meadows and fields

Characteristics

Habitat

terrestrial

New England state

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Flower petal color

blue to purple

pink to red

white

Leaf type

the leaves are compound (made up of two or more discrete leaflets

the leaves are simple (lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets)

Leaf arrangement

alternate: there is one leaf per node along the stem

Leaf blade edges

the edge of the leaf blade has lobes, or it has both teeth and lobes

the edge of the leaf blade is entire (has no teeth or lobes)

Flower symmetry

there are two or more ways to evenly divide the flower (the flower is radially symmetrical)

there is only one way to evenly divide the flower (the flower is bilaterally symmetrical)